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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Taylor Strano. This is Mamma MIA's twice daily

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Speaker 2: news podcast, The Quickie. How's your relationship with alcohol? Were

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Speaker 2: you one of those people who signed up for a

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Speaker 2: booze free month during dry July? Well, congrats, my friends,

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Speaker 2: we're at the halfway mark even if you're not participating.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a closer look at what actually happens to

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Speaker 2: your body when you stop drinking. Before we get there,

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Speaker 2: Here's Clare Murphy with the latest from the QUICKI newsroom

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Speaker 2: for Wednesday, July sixteenth.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Taylor. Childcare record keeping practices are under scrutiny after

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Speaker 1: police identified more facilities linked to an educator accused of

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Speaker 1: sex offenses. More than eight hundred children are being urged

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Speaker 1: to get tested for infectious diseases after four extra childcare

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Speaker 1: centers were revealed as locations where Joshua Dale Brown had worked,

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Speaker 1: Cook in Melbourne Southwest between April twenty twenty two and

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Speaker 1: January twenty twenty three. A police spokesperson says the investigation

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Speaker 1: has been extremely complex due to childcare approved providers not

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Speaker 1: having centralized records, requiring detectives to execute search warrants to

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Speaker 1: obtain handwritten records, shift rosters and other critical information. They've

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Speaker 1: also had to interview witnesses to verify details and assess

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Speaker 1: more than two hundred and seventy Crimestoppers reports. A workmate

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Speaker 1: of accused murderer Lachlan Young has told the court that

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Speaker 1: Young planned to drug his ex girlfriend and crash her

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Speaker 1: Giving evidence at Young's murder trial yesterday, Benjamin O'Keefe told

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Speaker 1: wanting to rufie Hannah and take her out bush and

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Speaker 1: things from him. O'Keeffe then explained how Young had turned

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Speaker 1: request for him to be his getaway driver, requesting he

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Speaker 1: red carpet ceremony on September fourteen. That's your latest news headlines,

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Speaker 2: Thanks Claire. Next, what really happens when you stop drinking?

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Speaker 2: We're sixteen days into Dry July, that month where folks

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Speaker 2: for people affected by cancer, giving their own health a

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Speaker 2: this year, the message of Dry July is even clearer.

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Speaker 2: Links between alcohol and cancer have never been stronger. Major

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Speaker 2: That's Nicole Lee. She's an adjunct professor at the National

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Speaker 2: Drug Research Institute at Curtain University. She's been looking into

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Speaker 2: Despite this warning, only about half of us know about

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Speaker 3: The cigarette packaging and the warning labels on cigarette packages.

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Speaker 3: That's been shown to raise awareness about links between tobacco,

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Speaker 2: Okay, but what about other health advice. We've always been

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Speaker 3: We're pretty clear that any alcohol for most people is

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Speaker 2: Moving on from the between cancer and alcohol, Nicole has

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Speaker 2: been looking into our relationship with alcohol in a different light,

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Speaker 2: timely for drive July, So it actually happens if you

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Speaker 2: Nicole's research is based on moderate to light drinkers. Heavy

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Speaker 3: Alcohol tends to have a much bigger effect. So all

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Speaker 2: Whether you're soldiering on with the rest of Dry July

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Speaker 2: whether that's from friends, an app or a professional. Speaking

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Speaker 2: of if this episode has brought up anything you'd like

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Speaker 2: National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline on one eight hundred

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Speaker 2: link to a previous episode of The Quikie where women

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